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Little green aliens and the term " little green men " have fallen out of general use in serious science fiction circles and are typically only used by the uninformed or to ridicule the notion that aliens may exist, with a few exceptions, such as Yoda in the Star Wars movie saga.

Another example was in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's fourth season, episode number eight, which was titled Little Green Men.

Due to an accidental time displacement, Quark, Nog, Rom and Odo were transported back in time on a trip to Earth and became the subjects of the 1947 Roswell UFO incident ( The title belies the fact that the characters involved were brown, not green ; however, all four were aliens and the title plays on the 1940s use of the term ).

A similar derisive usage can be seen in the original Star Trek episode " Tomorrow Is Yesterday ", set in 1969, as Captain Kirk, captured by the US Air Force while attempting to steal film showing the Enterprise in Earth's atmosphere, calls himself a " little green man from Alpha Centauri " when interrogated by the base commander.

Earlier in the same episode, a rescued Air Force captain brought aboard the Enterprise tells Kirk he's never believed in little green men, immediately before meeting the greenish-tinged Mr. Spock ( who replies, " Neither have I ").

Similarly, in the first episode of the 1970 Doctor Who serial Spearhead from Space, Liz Shaw dismissively describes UNIT's work as investigating " little blue men with three heads ".